Casa indipendente in Corso V.emanuele 46
Nei pressi del centro storico, a pochi passi dalla piazza municipale e dell’ oratorio locale “Don Bosco”, proponiamo casa indipendente posta su due livelli + sottotetto ed internamente composta ingresso soggiorno/cucina con doppio accesso esterno, 2 camere da letto, 2 bagni e secondo livello adibito a sottotetto ma…
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Move in as it is
Condition not stated in the listingSee what needs doing and what each job costs
At €40,000 (€889/m²), even assuming a habitable condition and modest €200/m² of work, the effective cost is about €1,089/m²—well above the local €474/m² reference. Its position near Satriano’s historic center is a positive, but the listing does not say enough about condition, construction year, or energy performance to justify the premium.
More on the house and the area
A genuinely usable, furnished two-bedroom village house with two bathrooms, a working kitchen, tiled floors, balconies, and a large floored attic that could add flexibility. It has some charm from its colorful historic-center setting and hillside outlook, plus a very attractive €40,000 price, but the interiors are plain and the dense passageways, aging façades, and tiny scale limit the dream-home impact.
Decoration, tired fittings, a bathroom or a kitchen. The house is liveable as it stands.
Our read of the photos is €200/m². There is no published price band below €350/m², so the range is that figure widened by the spread of the lightest band.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€3,000 – €5,000
Wiring, water and sanitary work of any kind, heating, air conditioning and gas go to a registered firm by law, and so do flues and the air openings for gas appliances. That labour stays in the bill. Yours is the stripping out, plaster, paint, floors, tiling and carpentry.
Labour is 61% of a renovation price on average and 67% at the median, across 191 items of the Emilia-Romagna 2025 public price list. Materials are the rest. An averaged price list, not a quote.
Materials you buy yourself carry 22% VAT; supplied by the firm doing the work they go at the 10% renovation rate. On a €30,000 materials bill that is €3,600 of extra tax.
Household wiring installed before 13 March 1990 counts as compliant if it has a main breaker with overcurrent protection, protection against direct contact and a 30 mA RCD. Having a firm bring the existing wiring up to that and certify it is the cheapest lawful route.
- Very compact 45 sqm layout, with steep internal stairs and a low-value shared-village setting.
- Exterior walls and surrounding passageways show age, staining, and unfinished neighboring construction.
- No visible private garden or meaningful outdoor living space; the balconies are small.
Estimate from the listing and its photos, not a survey. Treat it as the starting point for your own quotes. An Italian builder's quote is normally written without VAT and without design fees, so add about a quarter to any figure a firm gives you.
The area around
Location score 61/100The area sits between the Ionian coastal strip and the Serre Calabresi, with wooded uplands rising inland within a short distance. The Torrente Ancinale valley is the main local landscape line, running down toward the Ionian near Soverato. The nearest town of size is Soverato on the coast, which has the main local services, railway station, marina and beach frontage. Inland, Serra San Bruno is the best-known centre in the wider mountain area, with the Certosa and large forest surroundings, but it lies beyond the immediate 15 km landscape. This part of Calabria is known for olive groves on the lower slopes, chestnut and beech woods higher up, and for the contrast between the Ionian shore and the inland Serre.